Hey everyone, I have the identical problem with beta2. I was hoping some fix would be posted. I've read everything I could on sound issues but don't understand how to proceed. Things look all right but xmms doesn't play any sound. To get rid of devfs, I have to rebuild the kernel? is a kernel without devfs unable to do certain things?
Here's what I could figure you might want. Hardware is a home buit box: AMD K6-II 550Mhz ATX ASUS P5A motherboard AOpen sound card ymfpci chip. [acuster@tsetse ~]$ uname -a Linux tsetse.lab-net 2.4.17-17mdk #1 Wed Feb 13 14:03:54 CET 2002 i586 unknown [acuster@tsetse ~]$ aumix -q vol 80, 80 pcm 80, 80 speaker 67, 67 line 67, 67, P mic 66, 66, R cd 80, 80, P igain 67, 67, P line1 67, 67, P phin 67, 67, P phout 67, 67 video 67, 67, P [acuster@tsetse ~]$ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted sg 30180 0 (autoclean) (unused) st 27316 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 15160 0 (autoclean) (unused) sd_mod 11644 0 (autoclean) (unused) scsi_mod 92488 4 (autoclean) [sg st sr_mod sd_mod] ymfpci 41060 0 ac97_codec 9568 0 [ymfpci] uart401 6336 0 [ymfpci] sound 57292 0 [uart401] soundcore 4068 4 [ymfpci sound] lp 6464 0 parport_pc 22088 1 parport 23968 1 [lp parport_pc] af_packet 12488 0 (autoclean) tulip 40416 1 (autoclean) rtc 5912 0 (autoclean) ext3 62092 1 jbd 39260 1 [ext3] [acuster@tsetse ~]$ rpm -qa | grep arts libarts2-devel-2.2.2-41mdk arts-2.2.2-41mdk xmms-arts-0.4-7mdk libarts2-2.2.2-41mdk [acuster@tsetse ~]$ rpm -qa | grep oss [acuster@tsetse ~]$ [acuster@tsetse ~]$ ls -l /dev/mixer lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Feb 27 23:55 /dev/mixer -> sound/mixer [acuster@tsetse ~]$ ls -l /dev/dsp lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Feb 27 23:55 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp [acuster@tsetse ~]$ ls -l /dev/sound/mixer crw------- 1 acuster audio 14, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/mixer [acuster@tsetse ~]$ ls -l /dev/sound/dsp crw------- 1 acuster audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 /dev/sound/dsp Is this of any help? adrian
